On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 16:58, Paul Howarth wrote: > My personal favourite solution for this problem: > > $ grep -i -r -l 'string' /place/to.start/searching > That worked well when I searched /etc, but when I tried the same search on /usr or /var it got many 'no such file or directory' returns, and eventually reported a loop in the search. I wanted to save the results to a text file. The /etc one worked. The other two resulted in a text file being created, but at soon as it hit a non-existant file it jumped back to screen, and nothing at all is written in the text file. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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